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What have you seen for idiotic accessories or for items that were just not thought out....

I saw a car window mount tripod head..... You roll down the window, slip it over the edge of the glass, and mount your camera or spotting scope to it. This one was marketed as XXXXXX window mount, real tree camouflage. Why would you need camouflage? With a couple of square inches of camouflage the critters will not be able to see you? That somehow they will miss the car, the big white lens, and the person behind it, but it is the tiny mount that matters?

Useless or absurd accessories - how about every iPhone photo accessory

Not to mention every circular split ND filter - unless you like the horizon dead center in every shot!

The most useless accessory I have spent my money on is a memory card wallet. I have NEVER used it. I'm glad it was cheap.

The most absurd accessory I own is have is my Better Beamer. Yes, it works great, but that fresnel lens burns a hole in equipment in record time, especially in the Florida sun. It has it's uses, but I only use it about 0.01% of time, even though I carry it with me 80% of the time.

Too often we lose sight of the fact that photography is about capturing light, if we have the ability to take control of that light then we grow exponentially as photographers. More often than not the image is not about lens speed, sensor size, DR, MP's or AF, it is about the light.

What have you seen for idiotic accessories or for items that were just not thought out....

Where do I begin ... I bought lots of idiotic accessories that I'm too embarrassed to mention here But here is one that I'm not too embarrassed to mention: cheap sh!t tripods ... I didn't learn my lesson the first time, so bought another and another and another (total 6 crap tripods) 4 of which are lying around, broken, in dust in some deep corner of the garage. ... why do I keep them around you ask? well, once in a while I get possessed by the DIY demon and watch some youtube video, where some guy turns his broken tripod into a "turbo" stabilizer rig or a crane or a jib and what not ... and it looks so freaking simple ... so I think, yeah, I can do that! ... so I try only to give up after a little while ... this struggle continues, hoping to hit jackpot one day

I love my Better Beamer, but generally would not use it in the sun, rather on a dull day to light things up far away. If there is a shadow in bright sun that needs to be illuminated, certainly, there could be a issue if you stand in the sun and let it cast a beam on your flash unit.

I find the neck strap that comes with most brands of cameras to be useless and absurd, its only good for giving my neck some serious pains. apparently Canon understands this, since they sent me a good neck strap as a CPS member.

Tied with the "tripod" that has flexible legs and can supposedly wrap around a fence post or branch. (The brand name has something to do with primates.) Yeah, it might work with a smartphone attached, but not a dSLR of any size or brand.

Both of these things are in my private museum of stupidity--a box in our garage.